I haven't seen any formal announcements, but I think this is part of
Google's larger strategy of merging results from multiple sources
(news, images, etc.) into a single results page, what they call
universal search.
http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/pressrel/universalsearch_20070516.html
Regards,
Frank
On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 6:36 AM, Stevan Harnad <amsciforum_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Leslie Carr <lac -- ecs.soton.ac.uk>
> Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 11:05:14 +0100
> Subject: Google/Google Scholar merge?
> To: JISC-REPOSITORIES -- jiscmail.ac.uk
>
> I was just using Google to search for items in repositories when I
> noticed that some Google results have Google Scholar data associated
> with them - author name, year of publication, number of citations and
> links to the Google scholar records.
>
> See the following examples:
> (EPrints Soton)
> http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&safe=off&client=safari&rls=en-us&q=site%3Aeprints.soton.ac.uk+%22institutional+repositories%22&btnG=Search
>
> (DSpace MIT)
> http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&safe=off&client=safari&rls=en-us&q=site%3Adspace.mit.edu+%22digital+preservation%22&btnG=Search
>
> I'm not aware of any announcements about this. Does anyone have any
> more information?
>
> On closer inspection, it seems that any of the versions of a paper
> that Google Scholar has identified will appear with the enhanced
> information - whether in a repository or on a publisher's website or
> an author's home page. The author names are sometimes somewhat awry -
> you will often see authors listed as "Submission R" because the paper
> is listed under Recent Submissions or similar.
>
> The vast majority of repository usage comes from Google, not Google
> scholar, and so this development is very welcome because it allows
> users to see some kind of scholarly perspective on top of Google's
> (and the Web's) model of individual document resources.
> --
> Les Carr
>
--
Frank McCown, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Harding University
http://www.harding.edu/fmccown/
Received on Thu Oct 16 2008 - 15:36:55 BST